This is the corp deck that I played in the Dutch nationals (40 players). It’s another variation of my Political Dealings asset spam deck out of MTI that I also played during the Antwerp regionals (1st) and the German nationals (3rd). This deck went 3-1 on the day with wins against Geist, Valencia and apoc 419 and a loss vs Khumalo. Yes you’ve heard that correct, I won a nationals by playing a total of 8 games (could have been 6, but Michiel didn’t want to ID and we ended up splitting anyways). Long live byes and Intentional draws.

Thanks to Kelfecil for organising this tournament so smoothly and to everybody from the Belgian crew for an amazing weekend. Especially to Clusterfox, because without him we would probably not be able to participate in so many raiding parties.

@ryanbantwins<3 thanks for the shout out :) the Bako in this deck was absolutely insane and two would have been bonkers, well done on taking the title for the Belgians in the Netherlands! Well done bro, you 100% deserved a Nationals title.

Congrats on the win dude!! Loved watching this deck on the German nats stream, and always enjoy your games :)

May I ask about ice placement and what you prioritise committing to protecting? TGs on centrals of course, other than that is it usually Pol. Dealings and Jeeves you look at protecting? Raman or Mumba maybe? I guess it's often matchup and situational to a large degree?

Thanks, it is indeed very matchup dependent. There are 3 kind of strategies

A runner who trashes nothing: Than you can indeed throw your TG's on R&D.

A runner who trashes the combo pieces: In that case it's best to throw a TG in front of PolDealings and maybe something small in front of Jeeves. If they trash PolDealings through the TG, you'll probably have a scoring window in the same remote and you can Team sponsorship the Poldealings back in the remote.

A runner who trashes everything: In that case I will often make at least 3 single iced remotes to protect asset that make it easier to spam to basically increase their trashcost. Most of the times asset like turtlebacks, temple, jeeves and even DBS.

Don't be afraid to just score out in a remote (against clot for example) or just from naked installs (with MTI trigger into TG when they check ideally).